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Page 73 of 1081912 · PDF PAGE 18
…e- tween the teacher and the disciple; because a disciple who has no faith in his master cannot be taught or guided by him. There may be things which will appear strange, and for which no reasons can be given to the beginner; but when the disciple has attained a certain state 01 development all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development 01 the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…e- tween the teacher and the disciple; because a disciple who has no faith in his master cannot be taught or guided by him. There may be things which will appear strange, and for which no reasons can be given to the beginner; but when the disciple has attained a certain state of development all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development of the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and fo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…e- tween the teacher and the disciple; because a disciple who has no faith in his master cannot be taught or guided by him. There may be things which will appear strange, and for which no reasons can be given to the beginner; but when the disciple has attained a certain state of development all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development of the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and fo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 274
…ad an uncanny feeling that if it vwere not for her, King Lamus would be invisible. In his mind, there was no) difference between any two things, but through her mediation he was able to pretend that there was. The studio was divided into several parts by arrange- ments of curtains. There was a perpetual soft noise of laughter, singing, and dancing; interrupted only by periods of intense silence which was somehow more significant than the sound. The firelight threw doubtful shadow pictures upon the glass roof; and from time to time figures moved…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…riveth from the word ‘helan’, to hele or conceal, in the tongue of the Anglo-Saxons. That is, it is the concealed place, which since ail things are in thine own self, is the unconscious. Liber CXI (Aleph) cap A ç 3. But compare the use of the saine word in section C. 4. See explanation in Point II. — 2 73 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 360
…cted by events. I was able to observe what went on as few people can, for the average man's senses are deceived by his emotions. He gets things out of proportion and he exaggerates them even when he is able to appreciate them at all. I made up my mind that it should be an essential part of my system of initiation to force my pupils to be familiar with just those things which excite or upset them, until they have acquired the power of perceiving them accurately without interference from the emotions. It is all a branch of the art of concentratio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 466
…to date --- seems to be almost identical with that of Main Street: that all aspiration is futile, attainment impossible in the nature of things. Like James Thomson, however, as I have demonstrated in my essay on him, he has so extended the scope of his argument as to leave no possible escape by withdrawal to some loftier plane. Nevertheless, his intellectual acquiescence in the ineluctable futility of life, his gentle blood and his godlike {738} genius compel him to make an irrational exception of this law in some quite inexplicable manner, and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…ind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. 61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall excee…
1913 · PDF PAGE 392
…n, nor that of transubstantiation for a chemical manipulation. By what right do you exclaim “Absurd!” ? I do not reason about any of the things you know; by what right do you say that I talk unreasonably? SCIENCE. I begin to understand you, or rather, I see that I shall never understand you. This being so, let us remain separate; I shall never have need of you. FAITH. I am less proud, and I recognize that you may be useful to me perhaps. Perhaps, too, you will be very sad and very desperate without me, and I will not leave you unless Reason con…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…ind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. 61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall excee…
1913 · PDF PAGE 392
…n, nor that of transubstantiation for a chemical manipulation. By what right do you exclaim “Absurd!” ? I do not reason about any of the things you know; by what right do you say that I talk unreasonably? SCIENCE. I begin to understand you, or rather, I see that I shall never understand you. This being so, let us remain separate; I shall never have need of you. FAITH. I am less proud, and I recognize that you may be useful to me perhaps. Perhaps, too, you will be very sad and very desperate without me, and I will not leave you unless Reason con…
1922 · PDF PAGE 263
… so detestable as to be unendurable. One might get relief by cleaning one’s teeth or by having a Turkish bath, but the energy to do such things is lacking. But if you take a fresh dose of the drug, it puts a War temporary stop to the efforts of nature to eliminate it. That is why it is such a vicious circle; and these | premonitory symptoms of abstinence are merely the
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
… ever through the empyrean of heaven and to resound without ceasing beyond the nadir of hell . Thou sha't plunge into the mystery of all things and become as a
1911 · PDF PAGE 156
…es may take their pleasure.) O ye heavens, arise; the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you. (This is a command for the whole of things to join in universal rapture.) Govern those that govern; cast down such as fall; bring forth those that increase; and destroy the rotten. (This means that everything shall take its own pleasure in its own way.) No place let it remain in onenumber. (‘‘ No place” is the infinite Ain. . . . “Let remain in one number”; that is, let it be con- centrated in Kether.) Add and diminish until the stars be numbere…
1919 · PDF PAGE 352
…iginal aspiration of the Disciple. By impurity is meant, and should always be meant, the mingling (as opposed to the combination) of two things. Do one thing at a time. This is particularly necessary in the matter of the aspiration. For if the aspira- tion be in any way impure, it means divergence in the will 30
1922 · PDF PAGE 144
…ory of those details that are so important in business, though the male temperament regards them as a necessary. nuisance. These are the things that one needs in an official muddle. “You don’t know any Italian at all?” asked the consul. ; “Only a few words,” she admitted, “ though, of course, Sir Peter’s knowledge of French and Latin help him to make sense out of the newspapers.” “Well,” said the consul, rising languidly, “as it happens, that’s just the point at issue.” ‘“‘T know the big words,” I said. ‘It’s the particles that bother one.” | “…
1954 · PDF PAGE 339
…ally drinkable. I expect, as I hope, that this time (communication heing universaHy better established, the foundations better laid, and things in general moving quicker) we may be able to enjoy the harvest in very much less time. But hang it all! it's hardly reasonable to expect complete fruition after only 40 years. What seems to me the most encouraging symptom of all is this: the Book itself, and the system of Magick based thereon, and the bankruptcy of all previous systems (as set forth in Eight Lectures on Yoga, Magick, The Book of Thoth, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 466
… all Roads open for ever. And to him making his Choice, explain how one may not travel far on anyone Road without a general Knowledge of Things apparently irrelevant. And with that he will understand , and bend him wisely to his Work.
1910 · PDF PAGE 274
…and instantly I heard it again. Beside him another demon, his very twin, was rocking a tremendous cradle framed of bars of iron like all things else, and candescent with as fierce a heat as the fiend’s. And now, in a chant of the most terrific blasphemy which it is possible to imagine, or rather of blasphemy so fearful that no human thought has ever conceived of it, both the 256
1910 · PDF PAGE 274
…and instantly I heard it again. Beside him another demon, his very twin, was rocking a tremendous cradle framed of bars of iron like all things else, and candescent with as fierce a heat as the fiend’s. And now, in a chant of the most terrific blasphemy which it is possible to imagine, or rather of blasphemy so fearful that no human thought has ever conceived of it, both the 256